UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018

On Aug. 22, 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Colombia, becoming the first pontiff to visit South America.

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A tapestry of Pope Paul VI is unveiled during a beatification ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City near Rome on October 19, 2014. On Aug. 22, 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Colombia, becoming the first pontiff to visit South America. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI | License Photo

Armed robbers pulled the Edvard Munch painting "The Scream," from the walls of the Munch Museum and escaped in broad daylight in Oslo on August 22, 2004. The painting was found about two years later. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2018 with 131 to follow.

In 1986, Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of nuclear industry worker Karen Silkwood more than $1 million, ending a 10-year legal battle waged by her family over her exposure to radioactive materials at the company's Oklahoma plant.

In 2017, India's Supreme Court declared the "instant divorce" practice among the nation's Muslim population to be unconstitutional.

A thought for the day: "Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt